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The glass castle : a memoir (2006)

Author: Walls, Jeannette
Subject: Walls, Jeannette; Children of alcoholics; Children of alcoholics; Dysfunctional families; Dysfunctional families; Poor; Homeless persons
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Language: English
Digitizing sponsor: Internet Archive
Book contributor: Internet Archive
Collection: printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; alibris; americana

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In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities

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